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Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for… — Hannes Alfven
Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided us with a… — Lyman Spitzer
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It… — Arthur David Ritchie
Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to… — Paul Feyerabend
In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so… — Vissarion Belinsky
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are… — Fritz Haber
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with… — Fulton J. Sheen
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. — Susanne Katherina Langer
What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge… — John Mortimer Smith
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a… — Harry Frankfurt
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future… — Frederick E. Crane
Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman;… — Arthur E Waite
Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their… — Amory Lovins
Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile. — Frank H. T. Rhodes
Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. — Tove Ditlevsen
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. — Rudolf Virchow
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found… — Rudolf Virchow
The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps… — Salomon Bochner
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is… — George Fownes

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